tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.comments2017-06-09T23:15:43.794-04:00Lady Patricia of TrakaiPatricia of Trakaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10749588384988572343noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-46253786035793710812017-06-09T16:42:09.004-04:002017-06-09T16:42:09.004-04:00Hi! Good to see you back. I&#39;m eager to see w...Hi! Good to see you back. I&#39;m eager to see what you have to say about Šokių Šventė. Take care!Cathy Raymondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04580681386443534011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-35832322136583259962015-08-25T22:21:26.470-04:002015-08-25T22:21:26.470-04:00Hi, Patricia! Good to hear from you again. I thi...Hi, Patricia! Good to hear from you again. I think I&#39;ve seen some other blog posts about wearing veils and wimples. <br /><br />http://www.neulakko.net/?page_id=896 Post with links to two different veil tutorials. (The blogger is Finnish but she blogs in both English and Finnish.)<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMlvH-SA24g Video veil tutorial by Edyth Miller, THL<br /><br />And here&#39;s a blog post about French medieval hair and veil styles that I just found tonight: <br /><br />http://collettedevaloisblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/french-medieval-hair-part-one.html <br /><br />Best of luck!<br /><br />Cathy Raymondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04580681386443534011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-5463707404293066902014-09-06T16:25:24.525-04:002014-09-06T16:25:24.525-04:00Hi, Patricia! I liked your post. I&#39;m fascina...Hi, Patricia! I liked your post. I&#39;m fascinated by the design of St. Birgitta&#39;s cap, even though it&#39;s way post-period for my personal costuming interests. Maybe I&#39;ll make one sometime anyway.Cathy Raymondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04580681386443534011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-42836381442244034792014-08-16T16:31:24.190-04:002014-08-16T16:31:24.190-04:00It&#39;s good to see you back! Good luck on the j...It&#39;s good to see you back! Good luck on the job front, too.Cathy Raymondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04580681386443534011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-48620215521295116172013-10-27T20:37:02.249-04:002013-10-27T20:37:02.249-04:00Hi, Cathy --
There are two traditional methods. T...Hi, Cathy --<br /><br />There are two traditional methods. The first is the method that Ukrainians use for creating what they call &quot;pysanky&quot;: trace designs on the egg with hot wax, dip in dye, trace more designs with hot wax, dip in darker dye, etc. In the second method, which seems to be peculiar to Lithuania, the artist dyes the egg first and then scratches the patterns into the colored egg with a tiny knife. See http://www.lithaz.org/arts/eggs/lit/methods.html for a summary.<br /><br />I&#39;ve tried the wax method a few times. You need a steady hand and practice, practice, practice....Patricia of Trakaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10749588384988572343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-27377052727755592652013-10-26T01:29:07.017-04:002013-10-26T01:29:07.017-04:00Hi! Glad to hear that you&#39;re doing okay, even...Hi! Glad to hear that you&#39;re doing okay, even if you have suffered the loss of a good friend. <br /><br />I know nothing about the Lithuanian egg decorating art. How is it done?Cathy Raymondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04580681386443534011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-15799555492751551082013-03-17T00:58:30.086-04:002013-03-17T00:58:30.086-04:00&quot;But I&#39;ve been focusing, by necessity, on...&quot;But I&#39;ve been focusing, by necessity, on trying to find gainful employment.&quot;<br /><br />Me too, Patricia. Fortunately I&#39;ve been doing some part-time work at home. So I&#39;ve been at my machine a lot and have managed to do a little blogging. Not as much as I&#39;d like, though.<br /><br />Good luck in your job search!<br />Cathy Raymondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04580681386443534011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-50363641308653383352013-02-20T13:18:51.502-05:002013-02-20T13:18:51.502-05:00I saw that! Both it and the Copernicus Google Dood...I saw that! Both it and the Copernicus Google Doodle yestderday made me happy - and also amused. <br /><br />I&#39;d be really interested in comparing sources with you on the Baltic women topic. My focus right now is on research and A&amp;S entry in pre-state women&#39;s material culture - especially dress and jewelry, and to a lesser extent domestic wares - and it would be useful to put that in a broader context!jonaskaitehttp://jonaskaite.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-83619510186408371852012-03-29T22:15:58.834-04:002012-03-29T22:15:58.834-04:00Hi, Jessi --
Thank you for your message! I think ...Hi, Jessi --<br /><br />Thank you for your message! I think it&#39;s great that you&#39;re pursuing a Lithuanian persona! There aren&#39;t a whole lot of us, but I am hopeful that there will be more. After all, in the High Middle Ages and the Renaissance, western European nobles would have heard of Lithuania and vice versa.<br /><br />Have you heard of the Slavic Interest Group, or SIG? It&#39;s the SCA-wide group for people interested in Eastern Europe -- from Kievan Rus to the Balkans, and including Lithuania, Poland and the Baltic region. There is a mailing list, too. Here are the links:<br /><br />http://slavic.freeservers.com/<br />http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sig/<br /><br />SIG people are very supportive of each other&#39;s efforts. The group has even had three &quot;Slavic University&quot; events, and I hope there will be more in the future.<br /><br />Sėkmės ir linkėjimai!Patricia of Trakaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10749588384988572343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-53784070833609107392012-03-28T20:37:59.402-04:002012-03-28T20:37:59.402-04:00Hi, I&#39;m Jessi from Georgia. I&#39;m relatively...Hi, I&#39;m Jessi from Georgia. I&#39;m relatively new to the SCA (haven&#39;t officially joined yet, but I&#39;ve been apart of a baby group in Athens for the past 3 years) and I&#39;m trying to do a Lithuanian persona. I come from the Bendzunas family (from upstate New York and later Chesapeake, Virginia) and wanted to because my mom instilled in me a strong respect for my heritage. Up until yesterday, I thought I was the only one pursuing Lithuania in the SCA, because no one around here knew of anyone. But I&#39;m glad to find out I&#39;m far from being the only one. Thank you.Katyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13528800997446122522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-79016862600024961652011-06-08T11:54:50.281-04:002011-06-08T11:54:50.281-04:00The Lithuanian folk dance group Malunas was sellin...The Lithuanian folk dance group Malunas was selling those shirts as a fund-raiser a few years back. The front image, incidentally, shows a pair of skeletons dancing in Lithuanian national costume. That&#39;s a nod to the Grateful Dead (see http://www.sfgate.com/sf/deadshirts.html).Patricia of Trakaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10749588384988572343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-51645207383191181272011-06-08T00:02:56.829-04:002011-06-08T00:02:56.829-04:00Lucky you! :)
Oh, and his tie is divine! (And to ...Lucky you! :)<br /><br />Oh, and his tie is <i>divine</i>! (And to be fair, you are at least wearing a thematically appropriate t-shirt. Where on earth did you find it?)pearlhttp://pearl.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-87864348341119732842011-05-17T00:51:03.031-04:002011-05-17T00:51:03.031-04:00I&#39;ve been following you for some time now, mea...I&#39;ve been following you for some time now, meaning to comment, and this seems just the perfect post to delurk...<br /><br />You&#39;re right, it&#39;s incredibly hard to find information, and slow going at the best of times - I feel like most of what I&#39;m doing is wrong, most of the time, but how else do you learn? I&#39;m in much the same place, dabbling in a lot of different things and trying to find my focus, but really, sort of resisting focusing too. There&#39;s something to be said for the big picture.<br /><br />I would be THRILLED to see a TA article! (And I would photocopy it and carry it around in my documentation folder and hand it to whoever says, &quot;What in the WORLD are you WEARING?&quot;)lyndyn29http://jonaskaite.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-22511293717530816042011-02-03T22:33:12.696-05:002011-02-03T22:33:12.696-05:00&quot;As I&#39;ve said before, if you ignore Easte...&quot;As I&#39;ve said before, if you ignore Eastern European history, you&#39;re omitting a huge part of European history.&quot;<br /><br />Amen to that! Although I only know Pan Zygmunt and Sfandra from the Internet, I am glad to see their talents recognized.Cathy Raymondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04580681386443534011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-65961982439736191072010-11-21T21:59:59.292-05:002010-11-21T21:59:59.292-05:00Good luck on the freelance writing--it takes guts ...Good luck on the freelance writing--it takes guts to start over like that.Cathy Raymondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04580681386443534011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-78526461990685818182010-07-08T22:15:45.731-04:002010-07-08T22:15:45.731-04:00By the way, there&#39;s a 2010-2011 calendar with ...By the way, there&#39;s a 2010-2011 calendar with gorgeous, full-color photographs of reconstructions of Lithuanian costume from the 1st through 16th centuries! Balticshop.com is carrying it for $40 plus $3.95 shipping (they claim it takes 2-3 weeks for delivery). Pearl and I were discussing it here:http://pearl.livejournal.com/416837.htmlCathy Raymondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04580681386443534011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-58349679593527116942010-04-23T20:33:40.997-04:002010-04-23T20:33:40.997-04:00Have you seen this: http://pearl.livejournal.com/2...Have you seen this: http://pearl.livejournal.com/208996.html<br /><br />(I know I&#39;ve seen the last two women on the bottom row before, too, in a costume book. Darned if I can remember where, though.)pearlhttp://pearl.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-80102380358103999142010-03-28T23:58:29.367-04:002010-03-28T23:58:29.367-04:00I like Stolichny in Pikesville/Reisterstown, MD.I like Stolichny in Pikesville/Reisterstown, MD.Katiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12542426899890871618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-35802769188690321952010-03-18T12:24:05.811-04:002010-03-18T12:24:05.811-04:00Ah, I see now -- thanks! There seems to be two dif...Ah, I see now -- thanks! There seems to be two different levels of &quot;being signed in.&quot; I guess I wasn&#39;t signed in to my Dashboard or something.<br /><br />Since &quot;vcdsexy&quot; was one of the few words in Roman letters in that comment, I didn&#39;t want anyone to click on the comment and end up at a porn site or identity-theft site thanks to my blog.<br /><br />Thank you again!Patricia of Trakaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10749588384988572343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-49009663874033189812010-03-18T10:22:03.329-04:002010-03-18T10:22:03.329-04:00If the setting is right, you should see a little i...If the setting is right, you should see a little icon of a trash can at the bottom of each comment. Click on it, and it will take you to a page where you can delete the comment (it will ask you &quot;are you sure you want to delete&quot; first).cathyr19355https://www.blogger.com/profile/04580681386443534011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-50738662456513085252010-03-13T00:38:55.038-05:002010-03-13T00:38:55.038-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.香蕉哥哥https://www.blogger.com/profile/07605534366923094656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-63916844857947059242010-03-09T11:04:22.646-05:002010-03-09T11:04:22.646-05:00Thank you! Egg-decorating seems to be fairly wides...Thank you! Egg-decorating seems to be fairly widespread in Eastern Europe. Don&#39;t forget, Lithuania used to incorporate most of what is now Ukraine and Belarus, and for a while there was the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth....<br /><br />The Polish word for <i>pysanky</i> is <i>pisanki</i>. Here&#39;s a <a href="http://www.polamjournal.com/Library/Holidays/Easter/easter.html#Pisanki" rel="nofollow">guide to one Polish method of egg decorating</a>.<br /><br />The Ukrainians seem to favor the metal funnel on a stick known as a <i>kistka</i> (plural <i>kistky</i>). The woman who ran the 2009 demonstration at which I made my egg got her equipment at the <a href="http://www.ukrainiangiftshop.com/EGG-DECORATING-SUPPLIES/departments/60/" rel="nofollow">Ukrainian Gift Shop</a>. From what I&#39;m seeing online, though, Lithuanians who work with the wax-batik method use a solid stylus dipped into hot wax, like the Polish method above.<br /><br />The Belarusians (who were once ruled by Lithuanians, after all), Bulgarians, Serbs, Czechs, Romanians, Slovaks, and Slovenes all have their own words for <i>pysanky</i>.Patricia of Trakaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10749588384988572343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-42597343261936913742010-03-09T09:36:43.000-05:002010-03-09T09:36:43.000-05:00Very nice! I didn&#39;t know that the Lithuanians...Very nice! I didn&#39;t know that the Lithuanians had an egg-decorating tradition too. (These eggs resemble a Polish tradition I had heard of, though.)<br /><br />Long ago when I had more spare time, I used to experiment with pysanky--the Ukrainian egg-dyeing style. I wasn&#39;t all that good but it was fun to experiment.cathyr19355https://www.blogger.com/profile/04580681386443534011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-29951836266435549742010-01-06T20:31:43.601-05:002010-01-06T20:31:43.601-05:00Commenting to myself here -- found an article on a...Commenting to myself here -- found an article on a Ukrainian restaurant in NYC: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/dining/06soup.html?em=&amp;pagewanted=all.Patricia of Trakaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10749588384988572343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-15256903786662697582009-12-19T22:29:10.395-05:002009-12-19T22:29:10.395-05:00Sounds very tasty (but then, I&#39;m part Polish a...Sounds very tasty (but then, I&#39;m part Polish and I&#39;ve been feeling hungry all day today--must be all the snow shoveling I&#39;ve been doing!).cathyr19355https://www.blogger.com/profile/04580681386443534011noreply@blogger.com